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Toivo Tammik

Auteur van Ruumid : Rein Vainküla arhitektuurifotograafia : fotod kümnenditest 1960-1980 = Spaces : architectural photography by Rein Vainküla : photos from the decades 1960-1980

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Ruumid : Rein Vainküla arhitektuurifotograafia … door Toivo Tammik
Rooms and Buildings and Spaces
Review of the Ansambel AB/Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool paperback (2019), a bilingual Estonian / English language edition, translated by [author:Juta Ristsoo|6309450]
The extensive and systematic legacy of photographer Rein Vainküla documents, among other things, the modernist revolution in Tallinn's urban planning in 1960-1990. The book provides the reader with an introduction to the most important architectural and architectural landmarks of Tallinn during the period. The architectural part of the urban panoramic views of the heart of Tallinn is richly presented. The author of the book, architect Toivo Tammik, has also opened the contextual connections of objects in the accompanying texts. In addition to Tallinn, the book provides examples of contemporary architectural interventions in smaller cities and rural settlements, such as country shops, cultural institutions and residential buildings.

Rein Vainküla was an amazing creative person who was a self-taught photographer. Vainküla worked as a photographer with great devotion for a total of 46 years and retired in the already independent Republic of Estonia. In addition to depicting architecture and the urban environment, Vainküla's repertoire has included photography of interiors, sculpture and design objects. He was a regular contributor to the 1960s design magazine Kunst ja Kodu (Art and Home), and over the years he has contributed extensively to Estonian architecture yearbooks, photo and review albums. translation of the Estonian language synopsis.


A survey of post-Stalinist through to Stagnation era architecture in the 1960s to 1990 of Soviet Estonia does not immediately convey the idea of being an interesting photo subject. But in the eyes of self-taught photographer Rein Vainküla (1936-2011) a beautiful archival record of 4,000 images from this era was preserved due to his obsessive attention to detail and an artistic eye.

Almost 400 of these negatives have now been selected and printed by the architect Toivo Tammik and designer Martin Pedanik in this recent curated collection. Due to his work access to both a professional camera and to recently finished building interiors we have the benefit of observing clean almost untouched spaces before they have been marred by any inhabitants. Almost all of the photographs, whether exterior or interior, are without human figures (the cover photo is one of the few exceptions).

Many of these are settings of the modern constructions in the midst of the ancient medieval city, showing buildings almost alien in their environments. The designs of both exteriors and interiors show a marked element of Scandinavian influence and the sometimes reduced Soviet-era access to construction materials makes for rustic touches when only wooden planks may have been the only wall material available.

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This is a rare book. it deals with an era, the 1960-90 Soviet occupation see by an artist through architectural photography. The book invites to be discovered, contrasted and followed as a narrative, through a series of photographs chosen and placed in a way that reveals "a subjective glimpse of a talented man".

This is a series of photographs that show the city - at the time - through neat black and white images following an intended "tracking shot" that begins in the city center, goes through the emblematic medieval Old Town and continues with the change that arrives with the Soviet design and their attempt into modernism.

It is a document "saved" through the exhaustive effort of Rein Vainküla, who left thousands of negatives, that architect Toivo Tammik organized making sense of a narrative accompanied by brief and insightful texts together with the laborious work of designer Martin Pedanik.Excerpted from a review by Antonieta Cendoya (sourced from Scribd)


Trivia and Links
A selection of 19 photographs from the Rein Vainküla collection can be seen at the ERR (Estonian Public Broadcasting news site article New Photo Collection documents architectural changes in Tallinn.… (meer)
 
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